In the last Trilogy Report, we considered the rising popularity of granny flats as an affordable accommodation alternative, across the tightly constrained New South Wales housing market.

Education around effective money management is sadly lacking in Australian school curriculums. So it’s up to us as parents to pass on our own personal life lessons learnt from both good and bad experience and the mistakes we make along the way.

Once again, media madness has picked up full throttle around the Reserve Bank’s decision to cut the official cash rate to a record low 2.25% a fortnight ago.

Affordability is an ongoing issue around Australia’s major capital city housing markets. And as more people are alienated from select ‘peak postcodes’ by exponentially rising property values, it’s perhaps time for investors to think ‘outside the square’ when it comes to providing affordable accommodation.